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School receives largest private donation to date

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Giving your heart and sole

By LIZ LAWYER assistant news editor

American Electric Power to pay a $4.6 million settlement to reduce pollution.

Campus News

Professor Jack Santino speaks on the ritualesque and folk memorialization of war.

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Features Pull out the cheese and learn which wine goes best with a variety of foods.

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Sports Ohio State transfer Brayden Bell is set to contribute in a big way to the men’s basketball team.

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When USU President Stan Albrecht approached Utah businessman Marc Bingham about a possible donation to USU, Bingham’s reaction was more droll than Albrecht probably realized.

“You sons of bitches tried to keep me out when I went to college, and now you want a donation from me?” he said he thought.

Bingham was kidding.

He showed it by giving the largest single private donation in USU’s history – $15 million to go toward the construction of a building on the Uintah Basin campus in Vernal.

Bingham, a USU alumnus, said he lost contact with the university over the years until Albrecht came to him with the idea of donating.

“I said, ‘I’ll build you a building,’” he said.

The building will be the second on the Vernal campus. It will be an Entrepreneurship and Energy Research Center and will be used to train students in fields ranging from business to engineering to environmental policy and more.

Robert Foley, chair of the Education Committee for the Vernal area Chamber of Commerce and a member of USU’s Board of Trustees, said the gift of Bingham and his wife, Debbie, will fulfill long-time goals for USU’s Vernal campus.

“Many of us have dreamed for years of a campus presence in Vernal,” Foley said. “We all would like to thank you, Mr. Bingham, for making those dreams real.”

Bingham, a Vernal native, graduated from USU in 1963 with a degree in wildlife management. He said he spent several semesters teetering on the edge of academic probation – hence the “you tried to keep me out” comment. After graduating, he worked a few years with the Bureau of Land Management before becoming involved in business and establishing the Phone Directories Company, one of the most successful independent publishers in the yellow page industry.

Now officially retired, Bingham said it was just time to start giving back.

“I’ve been a little bit lucky in life,” he said. “I’ve come a long way from picking up roadkill for a living.

“We’ve reached that time in life where we’re getting to retire. We have enough to do what we want to do and have some left over. You can’t take it with you. I never saw a hearse with a U-Haul trailer behind it full

- See GIFT, page 3

During the last week, USU students donated 526 pairs of shoes to Aggies for Africa for Feet First, a shoe drive. Boxes for donations were in Old Main, the Merrill-Cazier Library and the TSC. The shoes will be donated to the people of Zambia with the help of Mothers Without Borders. TYLER LARSON photo

Scream canceled to end competition between Institute and USU activities

By RANAE BANGERTER staff writer

The Scream is canceled this year, as well as any other Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Institute activity that is in competition with the University.

“I think at times the University felt like there was a competition,” said Institute of Religion Student Council President Cam Lee. “We want to make sure that (the University doesn’t) feel that way and they feel that we are totally here to serve them and to help them achieve their vision and their goals.”

The Institute advisory council met a few weeks ago to discuss working with the University and also canceling the Scream. The final decision was made last week.

The very reason the Scream was started was to be in direct competition with the Howl, but the Institute wants to change that, said Institute Director Wayne Dymock. The Scream began as a Cache Valley young single adult activity, but had been passed to the Institute in recent years, Dymock said. The Howl was not seen as a positive activity for many in the valley, he said, and the campus LDS Priesthood Leader Gordon Low agreed.

“I don’t think there’s any question that the Howl has some elements that haven’t been particularly favorable,” Low said. “I’ve talked to the administration at the school and they want to do what they can to make improvements where needed.”

Low said the Institute will not be holding the Scream but if LDS wards and stakes want to have their own Halloween parties they can.

“I know some (people) are going to be disappointed with it, I know that,” he said. “On the same token, a Halloween party presented by the Institute isn’t live or die, it’s not an ‘oh my gosh the world has ended and I can’t go to a Halloween party provided by the Institute.’”

Low said what they are trying to do is to get away from being the activity center and divert that responsibility to the wards and stakes.

The Scream and the Howl are not the only activities that have butted heads with the University in the past.

Dymock said blood drives would be scheduled back to back. The Latter-day Saint Student Association on campus is now trying to facilitate the communication through the Associated Students of USU. Lee told ASUSU in a meeting last week that the LDSSA wants to do all they can to help them.

“What we want to do is now shift our resources towards the University and assist and help and make this University a great university in everything they do,” Lee said.

Tim Ray, LDSSA president, said he has been working with ASUSU and along with their committees, more campus service organizations like the sororities and fraternities have now been coming to them for help with service and activities.

“We weren’t talking before, and so we’re competing for kind of the same students there and it was hurting both organizations,” Dymock said. “Now if we can project out and be a part of the council, and know what’s coming down calender-wise, we can plan

- See SCREAM, page 3

Aggies lose pants to help insulate houses

Opinion “I hope our university continues to court controversy. As a public institution for higher learning, USU has that responsibility.”

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Almanac Today in History: In 1991, former U.S. postal worker Joseph Harris “goes postal” and shoots two former co-workers in Ridgewood, N.J. The day before, he killed his former supervisor with a three-foot samurai sword and shot her fiance at their home.

Weather High: 70° Low: 32° Skies: Sunny and clear with SW winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.

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By BRIA JONES staff writer

At least one student decided to walk around campus without his pants Monday after donating them to be recycled into insulation for housing at Cotton’s Dirty Laundry Tour.

“I’m not opposed to going around like this,” said Lance Brown, junior in sports marketing, who was wearing Cotton Inc. boxers in place of his missing pants.

Brown said he won the boxers at one of the booths and decided to wear them so he could donate his denim. The donated denim will be recycled into insulation to be used in houses built by Habitat for Humanity for Hurricane Katrina victims.

Cotton’s Dirty Laundry Tour visited USU as part of a marketing campaign to reach the college demographic. Cotton Inc. is working with Jack Morton Worldwide, an experiential marketing company based in New York, N.Y., to bring the tour to 11 college campuses through Nov. 6.

“We want to remind students that most of what’s in their closet is cotton, like denim,” said Katie Reedy, a representative of Jack Morton Worldwide.

Brown said he liked the Dirty Laundry Tour campaign and thought it was an exciting event for the school to host.

Lance Brown, junior in sports marketing, dropped his drawers for a cause, Monday. Cotton’s Dirty Laundry Tour was on “I don’t mind people marketing,” he campus asking students to give up their denim to be used as insu- said. “It provides something fun. That’s what I like about USU; there’s always somelation for houses Habitat for Humanity is building for Hurricane thing going on.”

Katrina victims. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

The tour was hosted by ASUSU and the College of Natural Resources, with the Public Relations Student Society of America coordinating the denim collection efforts.

Kevin Crouch, president of PRSSA, said the group had collected about 120 pieces of denim after the event ended. The goal, Crouch said, is to have 500 pairs of denim, which can produce enough insulation for one house, by the time collection ends.

Last year, the tour visited Weber State University’s campus, and from the 14 universities involved, the denim drive collected about 14,500 pieces of denim, Crouch said.

Denim for the project can be in any condition, PRSSA treasurer Jackie Banda said, whether in scraps, covered in paint or brand new. Banda said students can continue to donate their denim at any box with the Cotton Inc. logo, located in the Institute building, through the end of the week, as well as the Taggart Student Center and Animal Science building through the next three weeks.

The tour featured several booths with different activities for students to win prizes, including two where students could get a free T-shirt customized and enter to win gift cards and denim clothing.

Cotton’s Dirty Laundry Tour’s next stop is California State University in Fresno.

For more information about the tour or the Cotton Inc. denim drive, visit the tour’s Web site, accesscotton.com.

–bri.jones@aggiemail.usu.edu

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World&Nation

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007

Today’sIssue

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007.

Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Ben Sabino, a sophomore from Washington, D.C., majoring in aviation.

ClarifyCorrect

In the “Festival of Lights” caption in the Monday edition of The Utah Statesman, it was incorrectly stated that Diwali was the celebration of the Hindu New Year and that the Festival of Lights was in honor of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. The Hindu new year occurs in April for the majority of India.

Diwali, the Festival of Lights, was started when Lord Ram, a Hindu god, returned from exile and was welcomed by lit oil lamps on a moonless night, hence the Festival of Lights.

Nat’lBriefs

Officer who shot jail escapee is back to work MANILA, Utah (AP) – The Wyoming officer who shot an escaped killer from Utah is back on the beat after his bosses said his actions were justified.

Cpl. Mike Picerno of the Sweetwater County sheriff’s office was placed on paid leave after shooting Danny Gallegos at the end of a high-speed chase Sept. 29.

Gallegos, 49, and Juan Diaz-Arevalo, 27, escaped here from the Daggett County jail, along the Wyoming border, on Sept. 23.

They are convicted killers who were housed at the jail because there was no room at Utah prisons.

After six days on the run, they tied up a 79-year-old man inside his trailer and stole his sport utility vehicle and three guns.

Police spotted the Ford Explorer and placed spikes in the road to stop it.

Gallegos was shot when he refused to drop a rifle, the sheriff’s office said. He was listed in fair condition at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City Tuesday.

Tire store shooting leaves 2 dead, 2 injured SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) – A gunman shot a woman to death and wounded two men at a tire shop Tuesday, then apparently killed himself, police said.

Officers responding to reports of a shooting went to the Tire Pros shop at about 7:30 a.m. and found a “chaotic” scene, Sgt. David Livingstone said. People were found lying in the office and garage, and all the victims were employees or customers, he said.

The gunman was found dead at the scene of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Livingstone said. Ventura County deputy medical examiner Michael Tellez said the gunman was Robert Becerra, 29.

Livingstone identified the woman who died as Susan Sutcliffe, 53.

Albert Ramirez, 20, was in serious condition after surgery for a stomach wound, Simi Valley Hospital spokesman Jeremy Brewer said. Henry John Heeber IV, 37, was in fair condition with gunshot wounds in both arms, Brewer said.

Livingstone said a gun was found at the scene but he could not confirm if it was used in the slayings.

Albert Fert, France

Physicts Win Nobel Prize

(AP) – The effect is called giant magnetoresistance, but it enables amazing things at the miniature level.

Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their discoveries of the phenomenon, which spurred some of computing’s most astonishing developments, from video-playing handheld devices to PCs whose storage capacity now seems all but limitless.

France’s Albert Fert and Germany’s Peter Gruenberg independently described giant magnetoresistance in 1988, then saw the electronics industry apply it in disks with incredible amounts of storage.

“I can hardly think of an application that has a bigger bang than the magnetic hard drive industry,” said Phil Schewe, a physicist and spokesman for the American Institute of Physics.

“Every one of us probably owns three or four or five devices, probably more, that depend on billions of bits of information stored on something the size of a dime.”

Fert, 69, is scientific director of the Mixed Unit for Physics at CNRS/Thales in Orsay, France, while Gruenberg, 68, is a professor at the Institute of Solid State Research in Juelich, Germany.

They will share the $1.5 million prize.

Gruenberg told reporters he was not too surprised to win the Nobel.

“Because I have received a lot of awards, I was often asked, ‘When will the big award come?’” Gruenberg said.

Asked if he’d thought his discovery would have such wide application, Fert told The Associated Press: “You can never predict in physics. ... These days when I go to my grocer and see him type on a computer, I say, ‘Wow, he’s using something I put together in my mind.’ It’s wonderful.”

Here’s how it works.

Peter Gruenberg, Germany

As a metal disk spins inside a hard drive, an arm with a sensitive electromagnetic head at its tip hovers over the disk, somewhat like the needle on a record player (though it doesn’t make contact). This head reads bits of data by registering the magnetic bearing of individual particles; it writes data by changing that magnetic orientation.

For disk drives to increase in capacity, those magnetic particles must become smaller, so more can be packed into the same amount of space. But these ever-tinier materials produce fainter magnetic signals, which means the read-write head in the disk drive has to become more sensitive.

What Fert and Gruenberg independently discovered was that extremely thin layers of alternating metals could detect remarkably weak changes in magnetism — and translate them into “giant” changes in electrical resistance.

In other words, the particles used in data storage could get much denser and still produce the electrical signals that computers read as ones or zeros as they do their business.

It took until 1997 for giant magnetoresistance (GMR) to get translated from Fert and Gruenberg’s raw science into a product for the disk market. That was led by IBM Corp., where researcher Stuart Parkin developed a way to incorporate Fert and Gruenberg’s findings into the cost-effective manufacturing process already used to produce disk drives.

One result can be measured in diskdrive density — the number of bits that can be squeezed into a given area. In the 1990s, disk density was generally improving about 60 percent a year.

But GMR sparked a few years in which density doubled — a 100 percent rise — and costs still fell.

The steep ramp explains how

today’s top iPods pack more storage than desktop computers of just a few years ago. (For instance, Apple Inc. offers a 160-gigabyte iPod — 10 times the capacity of IBM’s first GMR drive for PCs a decade ago.)

GMR also helped herald the promise of nanotechnology in computing, said John Best, chief technologist for Hitachi Ltd.’s data-storage unit.

“It showed you could do really interesting things on a nanoscale,” he said.

“That wasn’t so clear.”

GMR does not deserve sole credit for recent improvements in data storage.

For one thing, it’s not used in solidstate “flash” memory that has less capacity than hard drives. Fert joked about that in an interview Tuesday, when he said his iPod, loaded with jazz, was busted.

“It’s my fault because I got an iPod with a GMR hard drive,” he said. “If I had an iPod with a simple flash memory, it wouldn’t be broken.”

Yet physicists say the full influence of what Fert and Gruenberg began is still to be felt.

That’s because the surprising property of giant magnetoresistance is one of many “quantum effects” that crop up when atoms are confined to really small spaces. Researchers are beginning to master methods for manipulating and measuring these other factors as well, which could prompt still more sophisticated ways of cramming data into minuscule spaces.

The field is known as “spintronics” because it harnesses the electromagnetic property of electrons known as spin.

“What we’re discovering with spintronics, compared with GMR,” said Mark Dean, director of IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., “is like comparing silicon to the vacuum tube.”

Deputy kills 6 and himself CRANDON, Wis. (AP) – An offduty sheriff’s deputy who killed six people apparently shot himself three times, with the last shot hitting him in the right side of the head, the state attorney general said Tuesday.

Tyler Peterson, 20, shot himself twice under the chin before firing the third and fatal shot, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said. Peterson also was shot once in the left biceps from a distance.

The six people who died early Sunday were either students or recent graduates of Crandon High School, where Peterson also had graduated.

They were at the house to share pizza and watch movies during the school’s homecoming weekend.

Peterson died in the woods near a friend’s home in Argonne. The lone survivor, Charlie Neitzel, was in fair condition Tuesday after surgery to remove debris from his wounds, said Karla David, a spokeswoman for St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield.

Van Hollen said Peterson went to Jordanne Murray’s home about 2 a.m. and argued with her after accusing her of dating someone else. Murray demanded Peterson leave, and he did, only to return with an AR-15 rifle.

“He didn’t speak, he simply opened fire,” Van Hollen said.

Investigators found three bodies on or next to a couch — Lindsey Stahl, 14; Aaron Smith, 20, and Bradley Schultz, 20. Murray, 18, was found in the kitchen.

Lianna Thomas, 18, was found in a closet, and Katrina McCorkle, 18, was just outside it. Both had apparently been trying to hide, Van Hollen said.

The last person shot was Neitzel, 21, who pleaded with Peterson after the first shot, only to have him fire again, Van Hollen said. Neitzel fell to the floor, where he lay still as Peterson fired a third time.

“Playing dead until Peterson left, Neitzel survived,” Van Hollen said.

It wasn’t clear whether Peterson was

struck in the biceps before or after he shot himself.

The shootings devastated Crandon, a tight-knit town of 2,000, where many people knew at least one of the victims.

“It’s an unbelievable, nightmarish thing,” said Pastor Bill Farr of Praise Chapel Community Church, which all of the victims’ families attend. “I keep thinking, like many of the families, that I’m going to wake up and this is not something that happened, that it’s just going to be normal again. That’s not going to be the case.”

The victims’ families have met with Peterson’s family and “hold no animosity toward them,” Van Hollen said.

The families, the church and the town’s one funeral home were still working on funeral arrangements Tuesday. Farr’s wife, Sjana Farr, said Peterson’s family had requested his funeral be last out of respect for the victims’ families.

Celebs&People LOS ANGELES (AP) – Kiefer Sutherland pleaded no contest Tuesday in his drunken driving case and will begin serving a 48-day jail sentence while his Fox TV drama “24” begins its winter production break in December.

The show’s star SUTHERLAND agreed to serve 30 days for driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of .08 percent, as well as 18 days for violating his probation for a 2004 drunken driving case, according to court records.

The actor was not in the courtroom and his attorney, Blair Berk, entered the plea agreement. A second misdemeanor charge, driving under the influence, was dropped. The charges stemmed from a traffic stop in Los Angeles last month.

As part of the arrangement, Sutherland must also enroll in an 18-month alcoholeducation class and attend weekly alcohol-therapy sessions for six months.

“I’m very disappointed in myself for the poor judgment I exhibited recently, and I’m deeply sorry for the disappointment and distress this has caused my family, friends and co-workers on ‘24’ and at 20th Century Fox,” Sutherland said in a statement.

While early releases have been granted to others, including celebrities, because of jail crowding and other concerns, Sutherland must serve all of his time, according to the plea agreement.

The sheriff also was specifically ordered to not release Sutherland to electronic monitoring.

The 40-year-old actor will officially be sentenced Dec. 21, when he must begin serving the 18 days in the county jail. It also is the same day his show begins its winter production break.

Sutherland then will have until July 1, 2008, to serve the remaining 30 days in jail. He will be on probation for five years and faces fines and a driving suspension, according to court documents.

LateNiteHumor

Top 10 Signs Your Pilot Is Drunk, from Feb. 17, 2006 — 10: Introduces himself as “Captain Morgan.”

9: You open overhead luggage compartment and find him taking a nap.

8: Giggles anytime someone says, “cockpit.”

7: Your flight from New York to Chicago takes 16 hours on the interstate 6: He agrees to go hunting with Dick Cheney.

5: Announces plane will be circling until he’s sober enough to land.

4:When you hit turbulance, he screams, “Damn! Spilled Kahlua on my pants!”

3: Asks passengers to look out window for the fuzz.

2: Keepts turnign on the intercom and yelling: “Wheeeee!”

1: He’s flying the airplane with Britney Spears’ baby on his lap.

StatesmanCampus News

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007

Upcoming Major Fair to Weavings of war showcase student options

By ROSS NELSON staff writer

USU’s fourth annual Major Fair, to be held Friday, will give students an opportunity to explore where academic degrees and programs can take them.

The fair gives a chance for advisers from every department on campus to come to a central location, the Taggart Student Center International Lounge, and show off information regarding programs and scholarships.

Additional offices which provide academic resources for students will also be represented, including the Disability Resource Center, Academic Resource Center, Student Involvement Center and Career Services.

Lindsey Thurgood, adviser in the College of Business, is backing the program.

“Major Fair is a great opportunity for students to gather information about majors, minors and also the available academic opportunities available to them,” Thurgood said.

Not only will there be information on major programs, but for interested students, minor studies will be addressed as well.

Scholarship information for each department will also be available.

Megan Ralphs, Major Fair committee chair, has been planning the fair for more than four months. While the fair is directed at students attending USU, potential students are also welcome.

“The Major Fair is for USU students,” she said, “but it also gives local high school students an opportunity to take a look at everything offered at the university.”

Every department on campus, along with most associated clubs and organizations, will be available for one-on-one informative discussion.

“This is a great opportunity for students to come see what this university offers,” Ralphs said. “Can they complete a program with a semester abroad? Can they join a club? These are all things we want to encourage.”

Ralphs said the Major Fair is organized with the intent of helping undeclared major students decide in what direction they would like to take their education, and it is sponsored by the Advising Office.

As an added bonus this year, students may enter to win an iPod donated by Computer Solutions, as well as other prizes from various donors.

The Major Fair is planned in conjunction with Preview Day, a program for local high school students which gives students of all ages to get a more personal look at ways to really get involved with a major.

“The fair is also a good time for students contemplating a change in majors as well as students interested in a minor,” Ralphs said.

Multicultural clubs, Study Abroad, departmental clubs and multiple other extracurricular programs will be present for discussion and recruitment.

Ralphs said, “Not only can students get more information on a major they are interested in, but they can find ways to have a good time and be more involved in their own education.”

The Major Fair is between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

“Something for everyone will be there,” Ralphs said. “Bring an idea of what direction you’d like to go, and let us help you through it.”

–ross.nelson@aggiemail.usu.edu

Specialist speaks of technology’s effects on plant, soil structure

By ROSS NELSON staff writer

David Robinson, professor of geophysics from Stanford University, discussed Tuesday the new technologies associated with ecohydrological development, specifically the use of geophysical imaging using electric conductivity in soils to determine water patterns as well as its effects on plant and soil structure.

Robinson gave the presentation, “Exploring Soils and Ecohydrological Structure in Vulnerable Ecosystems Using Geophysical Imaging.”

The geophysical imaging discussed is actually quite simple, he said: Give the ground an electric shock, and measure how well it conducts electricity. Based on how well the soil conducts electricity, scientists are able to see a computerized image of subsurface water patterns and how much water the soil has in it, he said.

“Geophysical methods offer a new way forward,” Robinson said. “We are trying to obtain a quantitative link between spacial patterns of subsurface properties and above-ground vegetation structure.”

Robinson said he believes finding a “quantitative link” between water, soil and plant life is crucial to understanding the ecologically changing world. Subsurface waterflows and soil textures have been shown to have definitive effects on water, soil and plant life, he said.

Robinson based most of his presentation on his field projects, he said, varying from studies in Idaho to researching arsenic/water levels in Cambodia, all drawing from the same technological advances in geophysical imaging.

Robinson said this technology provides many opportunities to take more specific and detailed observations of soil and water characteristics.

“Earth penetrating radar is the next step, but geophysical imaging is proving very effective,” Robinson said.

Robinson received his doctorate, specializing in soil and water content, from the Institute of Hydrology at the University of Ulster in the United Kingdom. He is currently employed at Stanford University as a research scientist, focusing his work on research involving soil readings using electrical sensors for geophysical imaging.

Throughout his career, Robinson has received several awards including the Soil Physics Early Career Award and the Soil and Water Management and Conservation Early Career Award.

The lecture was sponsored by USU’s Water Initiative. The Water Initiative is a cooperation of several of the university’s colleges and the Utah Water Research Lab. The Water Initiative works to facilitate collaborative research and to foster a collegial interdisciplinary community of water scholars.

The seminar was open and attended by students, faculty, alumni and general public. It was held in the Engineering building as part of the Water Initaitive’s Fall Seminar Series. The series will be continued on Oct. 30 with a presentation by Ray Huffaker from Washington State University’s School of Economic Sciences.

Robinson will be available on campus through the week for questions or discussion.

–ross.nelson@aggiemail.usu.edu

David Robinson, professor of geophysics at Stanford University, spoke at USU Tuesday. Robinson spoke of exploring ecohydrological structure.

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Low said students are here for an educational experience and if activities are scheduled in competition to each other it will deprive students of other opportunities.

“The plan is that we don’t want to conflict with university activities at all, that’s one of the reasons why it was canceled so they won’t conflict if kids want to go to the Howl they are free to without having to choose,” Low said. “That’s exactly what we don’t want to do is to conflict with university.”

Dymock also agrees that the Institute is a place to provide service for the university.

“There’s just many, many opportunities to involve our students here at Utah State and so we’re looking for more opportunities to work with the university,” Dymock said.

The Institute hopes to work together with the university on more activities. This week the Institute has a box in the main lobby to collect Levi’s for the PRSSA Denim Drive. The Institute has also hopes to be able to help with the Howl to make it more inviting to all students.

“I would hope the Howl would become a better and more wholesome environment that I’ve heard it was in the past,” Low said.

–ranae.bang@aggiemail.usu.edu

Professor Jack Santino spoke Tuesday afternoon about the ritualesque and folk memorialization of war. The lecture was held in conjunction with the Fabrics of Memory exhibit at the local gallery, AVA. TYLER LARSON photo

Fall enrollment largest in history

By USU Media Relations

USU’s fall headcount enrollment of 24,421 students, the largest in the university’s 119-year history, marks an increase of 3.4 percent from fall 2006. New freshmen, nonresident and regional campus enrollments are all up.

“We are very pleased with our numbers,” said Raymond T. Coward, USU executive vice president and provost. “Our enrollments represent tangible evidence that more students recognize the importance and value of a USU education.”

Coward said USU’s enrollment success this fall indicates that a wide range of students are taking advantage of the educational opportunities offered at USU in different locations and through different means of delivery at both beginning- and advanced-degree levels.

“All of these are positive trends for the future,” he said.

“Last fall we saw the end of a three-year slide in student attendance. What these new numbers indicate is that we have passed a very important milestone: we have stabilized our enrollment and are beginning to see an upward trend.”

Here is a breakdown of USU headcount numbers: · USU’s combined main and regional campus headcount enrollment grew from 23,623 students in 2006 to a new record high of 24,421 -- up 3.4 percent. · USU main campus enrollment is 14,893, up 3.1 percent from last fall. · USU regional campus enrollment is 10,736, for an increase of 6.2 percent. This reflects strongly on USU’s statewide reach with 42 percent of its students now attending USU’s regional campuses. · USU main campus domestic minority enrollment reached 700 students for a 6.5 percent increase over last fall. Students in this category include American Indians, Asians, Blacks and Hispanics. · USU main campus domestic minority enrollment among first-time freshmen is at 153 students, representing a 25.4 percent increase.

Full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollments by budget and line item, as reported today by the Utah System of Higher Education, also reflect USU’s stabilized enrollment numbers. Budget-related headcount includes individual students enrolled in a course at an institution, whereas FTE approximates the number of students enrolled full-time (15 semester hours for undergraduate students and 10 semester hours for graduate students) per semester.

Coward said he expects enrollments at the Logan campus to remain stable over the near future but that enrollments at the regional campuses will continue to grow significantly as they did this year.

“Indeed, new partnerships with Snow College and the College of Eastern Utah funded by the legislature this year will increase further the number of students throughout the state who are enrolled in USU degree programs,” he said. “Students will be able to stay closer to home and, consequently, enrollment numbers in these outlying areas will increase.”

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The Binghams have also donated land to the College of Eastern Utah for the Mesozoic Gardens.

“Mr. Bingham’s contribution will have lasting effects on the educational culture and environment in the Uintah Basin,” Albrecht said. “It will raise the level of education and the quality of life in the basin. But, most important for the community, it will support Utah State University’s broader effort to help the basin recruit its own, educate its own and return them to the local community as educated citizens, business people and leaders.”

Bingham said he considers the building a sort of legacy for himself and his wife.

“Back in my day, it was a five-hour drive to get to school,” he said. “It doesn’t take much to get to college, but it takes a whole lot to stay in college.”

Bingham said college can be a useful and

productive time, but students should know there’s more to be learned.

“It’s the best place to become a young adult,” he said. “College is a great place to get an education, but it doesn’t give you the wherewithal to survive in life. You have to work with people. If you give enough people what they want in life, you’ll get what you want in life.”

A ceremony celebrating the gift will be held Oct. 25 in the Uintah Basin. Planning and design will begin on the Entrepreneurship and Energy Research Center this semester, and construction is slated to start early next year. The building is expected to be ready for use in 2009.

The building will be used jointly by USU and the Uintah Basin Applied Technology College.

Other donations by private persons and local government entities to the Uintah Basin campus have augmented the larger donations by the Binghams and others.

–elizabeth.lawyer@aggiemail.usu.edu

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International Student Volunteers on campus International Student Volunteers (ISV) is looking for students from USU to travel overseas this summer on its exciting volunteer and adventure programs. Selected participants will have the opportunity to travel with a group of students from all over the world (18 years and over) on volunteer projects and adventure tours to either Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic or Thailand. The program lasts for one month but students may elect to travel from two weeks up to three months.

Traveling alongside ISV trained project and tour leaders, students will spend the first two weeks volunteering in real hands on projects, in either social community development (improving the quality of impoverished villages, building houses for refugees, teaching children English etc) or conservation (working with endangered sea turtles, working with Australian wildlife, planting trees in New Zealand etc).

The second two weeks will see the group launch into an adrenaline filled cultural and adventure tour of their chosen country, involving such activities as white water rafting, glacier climbing, rappelling, scuba diving and jungle kayaking.

The company is looking for fun, outgoing students to partake in the highly sort after programs. Students will make life long, like-minded friends who they travel with from over 400 universities worldwide.

Because ISV is a not for profit organization, students can offset the cost of the program through tax deductible sponsorship donations from the community.

Come and find out more.

ISV will be holding meetings Thursday Oct. 11, every hour on the hour from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 510 in the University Inn for those students interested in the program.

More information on the program can be found at www.isvonline.com For more information, please contact Tash Impey American Campus Representative International Student Volunteers Mobile, 714 883 7039, e-mail tash.impey@gmail. com or visit their Web site: www.isvonline.com.

TSC Patio going wild with exhibits today All Aggies are invited to enjoy a variety of ‘wild’ exhibits on the Taggart Student Center patio. Featured exhibitors include Stokes Nature Center, Willow Park Zoo, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Common Ground, USU Outdoor Recreation Center, Aggie Blue Bikes and more.

The exhibits will be on the TSC Patio between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Council and Governor release climate report Governor Jon Huntsman and the Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change (BRAC) released the Council’s Report on recommended measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Utah.

The report also includes an independent study on the science of climate change and an inventory of Utah’s current greenhouse gas emissions.

Governor Huntsman asked the stakeholder-based Council to consider the science, economics and policy regarding climate change and provide policy recommendations. The report includes 70 alternatives that include renewable energy incentives for development and investment in technology that would capture and store carbon dioxide emitted at coalfired power plants.

“For Utah to continue to enjoy vibrant economic development, a healthy environment and quality of life, we must take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change,” Governor Huntsman said. “I appreciate the commitment of BRAC members and individuals participating in the Stakeholder Work Groups to evaluate options and identify proactive measures for meeting this challenge.”

In addition to the report released today, the BRAC is evaluating options for a Renewable Energy Initiative. Those recommendations will be completed later in October and included as an addendum to the Council’s Report.

For more information about the Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change and to see a copy of the report, visit http://www.deq.utah.gov.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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Wining and Focus: Drinks

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By BRITTNY GOODSELL JONES assistant features editor ill Gates isn’t the only one allowed to drink a French burgundy wine with dinner.

That’s because status has nothing

to do with drinking wine, said Evan Bollers graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in New York.

“You don’t have to be a rich person or an upper-class person to study, enjoy and analyze wines,” Bollers said.

“There’s a misconception that people who are really into wine are snotty or uppity, and that is not really the case.”

Bollers said understanding viniculture, or the science of making wine, is important because it can help the drink er make more educated opinions toward wine and food pairings. And wine does not have to be expensive, he said.

Instead, he said wine is about perceived value and is objective just like food or music; it’s all about how much Wine was meant to be drank with food said Evan Bollers, who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in New York. He said common pairings include wine and spicy cheeses or heavy pastas. Locally, Hamilton’s hosts wine-pairing dinners throughout each season of the year.

The dinners include five to six course meals and different wines. A host at the dinner helps point out flavors and spices of the food and wine pairings the crowd eats. NOELLE BERLAGE photo

the drinker is willing to pay. .

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Coffee “myths” don’t tell all; drinking it may mean benefits

By BREEA HEINER staff writer

Students dotting the TSC patio sip steaming coffee from Caffe Ibis and Starbucks and many of them may not not be aware of the health benefits contained in their mugs.

A study conducted by the National Institute of Public Health in the Netherlands found that drinking coffee lowered the risk of type 2 diabetes. The study included 17,111 men and women and the participants who drank seven or more cups of coffee a day were significantly less likely to contract the disease.

According to the American Diabetes Association, complications of type 2 diabetes can cause cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and blindness.

Bethany Youngs, senior in parks and recreation, said although she is unaware of them, she is sure there are health benefits associated with drinking coffee.

“I would still drink coffee without health benefits, because I don’t think it harms me,” Youngs said.

Another article, “Spilling the beans on coffee” by Christine Gabel published in Better Nutrition magazine and disputes “common myths” about coffee.

One myth discussed is that coffee has little or no nutritional value. According to the article, coffee is the number one source of American’s antioxidants.

Antioxidants interact with free radicals, molecules known to cause cancer, to prevent cancer.

The article also discusses now coffee reduces the risk of heart disease, breast, colon, and liver cancer, among other things. However researchers have been unable to pinpoint the component in coffee that produces the prevention of cancer and disease, the article stated.

Although students may not know about researched health benefits, they may believe there are other health benefits and drink coffee for their own reasons.

Natali Zollinger, junior in geology, works at Caffe Ibis in the TSC and said, “I think that (coffee) keeps you motivated towards any sort of task, like an hour or two of studying.”

Zollinger also said she likes the taste and the fact that it keeps her awake.

A study conducted by Tokyo’s National Cancer Center, reported in October, found that men who drank three or more cups of coffee a day were at the lowest risk for pancreatic cancer.

The study included 100,000 men and

Speak Up “I think that (coffee) keeps you motivated towards any sort of task, like an hour or two of studying.”

Natali Zollinger Junior in geology women over the span of three years.

John Cutler, a senior in computer engineering, said he thinks there are health benefits from drinking coffee.

Youngs said she admits she doesn’t drink coffee to lower her risk of cancer, but added it’s a plus because she’ll drink it to keep her warm in the winter.

So whether it’s hours of studying, preventing cancer or just to keep warm, coffee has health benefits for students STUDIES AROUND THE WORLD are finding that drinking coffee has health at USU. -breea.lee.h@aggiemail.usu.edu benefits, including prevention of type 2 diabetes and cancer. TYLER LARSON photo

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Energy in a can

By COURTNIE PACKER senior writer

Though instant energy can be purchased and consumed easily, the popular drinks can be damaging to buyers’ health.

“Rockstars, Monsters, Red Bull, I pretty much drank them all,” David Buchanan said after confessing his former addiction to energy drinks.

“They worked the first few times that I started drinking them, but after that I was addicted,” he said. “I would think that I needed one right then, but in reality I didn’t.”

Buchanan, freshman majoring in art and graphical design, said he stopped drinking energy drinks nearly six months ago. He put a halt to the drinking after he started to feel the effect the drinks were having on his body, he said.

“Sometimes after I would have a drink, they would make me extremely sleepy,” Buchanan said. “I would catch myself just staring at things, and I wouldn’t have any energy. It was like I would just zone out.”

Buchanan is not the only person who has become addicted to energy drinks.

Angela Wallace, medical assistant at Intermountain Budge Clinic, said drinking any type of energy drink will result in negative consequences for a person’s body.

“Everything has a negative effect,” Wallace said. “There is nothing you take as an adult that is safe for you.”

According to the Web site altmedicine.com, energy drinks are carbonated drinks that contain large amounts of caffeine and sugar.

Kylie Kilger, freshman in elementary education, said the caffeine is what keeps her away from energy drinks.

According to altmedicine.com, one can of Red Bull alone contains as much as 80 mg of caffeine, which is close to the same amount contained in a cup of brewed coffee. Other energy drinks contain several times this amount in one can. The Web site also stated the amount of caffeine in an energy drink isn’t always indicated on the label, making it difficult to gauge how much one is consuming.

Another problem with energy drinks, according to the Web site, is that unlike coffee or tea, which is sipped slowly, it is common for typical energy drinks to be drank quickly and in excessive amounts.

According to Brown University’s student health services, individuals’ responses to caffeine vary, and these drinks should be treated carefully because of how powerful they actually are. The stimulating properties in energy drinks can boost the heart rate and blood pressure, dehydrate the body and prevent sleep.

Altmedicine.com stated many people are sensitive to caffeine and experience anxiety, irritability and difficulty sleeping because of it. Because caffeine is a stimulant, people with heart conditions should avoid consuming

large amounts.

Brown University advises students to know what they are drinking. Energy drinks should not be seen as “natural alternatives.” Some of the claims about energy drinks, such as “improved performance and concentration” can be misleading. Brown University warns that if students think of them as highly-caffeinated drinks, they will have a more accurate picture of what they are and how they will affect the body.

Alan Chugg, freshman majoring in biology said, “I don’t know a lot about energy drinks but I won’t drink them. They contain too much caffeine and I don’t like caffeinated drinks.”

Altmedicine.com researchers have discovered that one of the greatest problems with energy drinks involves the mix of ingredients contained inside a can. According to the Web site, many ingredients contained in energy drinks are believed to work with caffeine as a stimulant.

Energy drinks contain a vast amount of sugar, which works as a quick source of energy. Researchers also report that energy drinks add small amounts of Vitamin B to make the drinks appear healthy, according to the Web site. It also states some energy drinks contain gua“Once I realized rana, a South American herb how dangerous that is also they were for me, an additional I stopped. In place source of cafof energy drinks I feine. now drink all dif According to the database, ferent kinds of Intelihealth, juice. It’s definitely another coma lot better choice mon ingredifor me. ent contained in energy David Buchanan, drinks is taurine. freshman in art and Taurine is an graphic design amino acid which occurs naturally in other foods, though it is found in small quantities. Intelihealth estimates that one can of Red Bull has about as much taurine in it as 500 glasses of wine. Theoretically this is supposed to boost the effects of the drinks’ stimulants but studies have not yet been performed.

Buchanan said ke knows energy drinks are not the best way to get a boost.

“Energy drinks are bad for you. They contain a lot of chemicals that are very bad for you and your body,” Buchanan said.

Intelihealth also reports that the issue of energy drinks has reached such a problem that many locations spread throughout the country have banned the use of these drinks.

Many of these problems come not only from the ingredients contained in the drinks, but also ingredients the consumer adds in addi-

include my favorite genre – the soft drink.

The soft drink was tastier than water but not intoxicating like alcohol. It was the perfect go between. But as a latecomer to the drink game, the soft drink had to find its place, and that required some tricky advertising.

Instead of trying to convince consumers that drinking a soft drink is all about taste, ingenious marketing professionals came up with the concept that a person should drink a soft drink because that is who they are.

Soft drinks couldn’t use the food phrase because I’m not milk if I drink milk. That makes no sense. But I do drink milk if I am a certain type of person. It’s a lifestyle.

That’s the message of nearly every soft drink ad, and it has been so successful that other beverages have caught on and started using the targeted lifestyle approach.

This is where my Dr. Pepper obsession comes in.

Dr. Pepper prides itself in being the oldest soft drink and for having 23 flavors, likely the result of some bored soda shop boy squirting every flavor into a drink off a dare.

The Dr. Pepper lifestyle is one of variety and eclecticism. I drink Dr. Pepper because I’m pretty sure I’m schizo. The voices in my head tell me to drink Dr. Pepper because it fits their varied needs – there’s a fla-

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You drink what you are I hate to admit it, but my Dr. Pepper made me do it.

Some people blame their problems on the devil. Not me. I pass all responsibility for my actions on to the Dr. Peppers I drink.

Most people who know me – so the six people out there who actually read this column because I promised them cookies if they would – know I love Dr. Pepper. It’s my drink of choice, and I’ll take it over Coke or Sprite any day of the week. But what these people don’t realize is I didn’t choose the drink, the drink chose me.

Let me explain.

Everybody’s heard the common saying: “You are what you eat.” That only applies to strict food items.

Drinks are a whole different story. The saying for drinks is: “You drink what you are.”

It didn’t used to be this way. Back in the days of the caveman – and I don’t mean the Geico caveman – there were only a handful of drinks available: water, mastodon blood, milk and coconut juice, but that was only for the cavemen living in Hawaii. The most common drinks were water or milk. They did the trick and sustained life.

But over time, water got old and new drinks were created, mostly juice from fruits.

Then the effects of fermenting and alcohol were discovered, and this gave rise to a whole new family of drinks.

Eventually drinks evolved to

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vor for every personality up there, plus one extra. I only have 22 personalities. I got short-changed.

I (and by I, I mean myself and all my personalities) used to think there weren’t very many crazy people like me out there until I met my friend’s dad, who is now my hero. This man is something of a visionary. He has an entire refrigerator dedicated to Dr. Pepper. For his last birthday, he received 250 cans of Dr. Pepper from his children. That’s commitment.

He understands the lifestyle.

But Dr. Pepper isn’t the only lifestyle portrayed by beverages. There is a drink for just about every lifestyle and person out there.

Take Coke for example.

It’s probably the most popular soft drink on the market, and it has worked hard to establish “The Coke” lifestyle. Watch any Coke commercial and you’ll catch the message: Drinking Coke makes me cool, part of the in-crowd, and will dissolve my internal organs faster than water washes away sidewalk chalk.

That’s the lifestyle portrayed. The actual lifestyle is something more along the lines of, “I drink Coke because I want to look hardcore but I don’t want to deal with a hangover the day after.”

Diet Coke, while part of

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Energy drinks can be very unhealthy, especially because they are often consumed very quickly, according to altmedicine.com. PATRICK ODEN photo

tion to it.

The addition of alcohol to energy drinks is used as a mixer to the drink but the effects my be dangerous. Brown University reports that since energy drinks are stimulants and alcohol is a depressant, the combination of effects may be negative. The stimulant effects can hide how intoxicated a person is and prevent that individual from realizing how much alcohol was consumed.

Brown University also stated that the stimulant effect can give the person the impression that they are not impaired. However, once the stimulant effect wears off, the depressant effects of the alcohol will remain and could cause vomiting in sleep or respiratory depression.

In addition, both energy drinks and alcohol are very dehydrating. Studies from Brown

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University claim that dehydration can hinder the body’s ability to metabolize alcohol and will increase the toxicity and therefore result in a nasty hangover the following day.

Buchanan, who has avoided energy drink obsession, said he has not regretted his choice.

“Once I realized how dangerous they were for me, I stopped,” Buchanan said. “ In place of energy drinks, I now drink all different types of juice. It is definitely a lot better choice for me.”

Kilger said that she also has not regretted her choice.

“It’s not that I don’t like the drinks, it is just that I won’t drink them. It seems that everyone who does will become addicted to them, and I don’t want that.”

-courtnie.packer@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Herbal teas originated in China thousnads of years ago.

They are still drank today for medicinal purposes. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

Everything to know about tea

By TRUDY KENDRICK staff writer

Herbal teas have many uses from providing wonderful smells, tastes and effects without caffeine.

The Republic of Tea, a company that markets organic and exotic teas from around the world, came out with a book, “Tea and Herbs,” which was written by several people from the company. The book states the advent of tea drinking started in China sometime in 3000 B.C. It was used medicinally, later evolving into a social beverage.

The book also states, “The discovery of tea was accidental by the Emperor Shen Nong. He was boiling water in his garden and a camellia leaf fell from the bush into his pot. In curiosity he sipped the infusion, later declaring that it had medicinal powers.”

So, what makes an herbal tea an herbal tea? Herbal teas, properly called infusions, or tisanes in French,

are different from other teas because they are derived from herbs, the book states.

The limit of infusions is endless considering that there are many herbs existing and they can be infused in any number of ways. Herbs are defined by “Tea and Herbs” as “plants that serve human beings for their ability to lift our spirits, season our food, dye our fabrics, heal our ailments, and mend our wounds.”

Black, green, red and white teas come from different places but all come from the same plant, called Camilla sinensis, according to the book. “Tea and Herbs” states the plant grows indigenously in China, Tibet and northern India. However, it has been successfully grown and cultivated in places around the world at and above 42 degrees on the equator, according to the book.

One benefit of herbal infusions is that many herbs, excluding potentially dangerous ones, can be grown right at the seal of windows, perhaps in the bed of gardens as

well, according to the book.

Herbal infusions have a number of medicinal purposes.

Sally Sears, co-founder and owner in partnership of Cafe Ibis, said she has a cabinet in her home filled with herbs and teas. Some of them were cultivated nearby, while others were shipped into her store for use, she said. Herbs are best stored air tight in their entirety, Sears said, and provide the best potency when used before six months.

Smelling a whole herb is hardly potent, she said, but after crushing the herb, a room fills with its smell.

Sears said it is the oils in the herbs that make them beneficial. Herbs and modern medicine also go hand in hand, she said.

“A lot of what you get starts with the herbs,” Sears said.

For example, “Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West,” a book by Michael Moore, states the plant Mormon tea, Ephedra spp, fosters the medicine ephedrine which is used to help treat bronchial conditions, including asthma. Also, the bark of quaking aspen, Populus spp, is a key ingredient in aspirin, which is a natural blood thinner, fever reducer or anti-inflammatory, according to the book.

Many of these herbs were traditionally sipped as infusions, Moore said. However, their ill tastes have made pill forms more widely used.

Sears said she consumes many herbs for medicinal purposes. While undergoing a recent surgery, she said she used a little bottle of lavender oil for its calming effect. She also said as a student, she would chew on whole guarana seeds, used in energy drinks and about the size of blueberries, for their effects of energy and awakening. One time, however, she said she overdid it, becoming very jittery.

“We have become quick to treat the symptoms when what we could be doing is getting what our bodies need first, from our food,” Sears said.

Herbs and medicines need be used in moderation, Sears said, and this can be achieved by eating higher quality foods that are produced and distributed in healthier ways, most commonly on a more local and smaller scale.

-tru.k@aggiemail.usu.edu

Dr. Pepper: The drink that defines me

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the Coke family, portrays an entirely different lifestyle. It says, “I can get a watered-down version of Coke that has a horrible aftertaste and somehow be seen as slim and healthconscious.”

As such, Diet Coke has become the unofficial Mormon woman soft drink of Utah.

Don’t think that’s true? In high school I worked at a local grocery store, and every day I would see women come through the checkout line with at least two 12-packs of Diet Coke. I never once saw a man walk through the checkout line with a Diet Coke.

This addiction – yes, it is an addiction – among Utah women is so bad that my wife was weaned with Diet Coke in her bottle.

Come to think of it, that explains a lot now.

The Sprite lifestyle is like a cowboy’s trusty sidearm. It’s old, works well and doesn’t have much of a kick. Sprite is the standard go-to drink when nothing else sounds good. It’s the vanilla of soft drinks – extremely popular but kind of drab. All I know is until I actually see LeBron James drink a Sprite on the basketball court after a slam dunk, I’m not going to fall for any of that sublymonal advertising.

Alcoholic beverages lack vision. There is only one message common among all the alcoholic drinks, albeit a very successful one: “Drinking alcohol makes you super attractive and will improve your sex life.” Strangely

enough, I have yet to see an alcohol commercial that portrays the real lifestyle of alcohol the morning after.

Milk is the grandmother of beverages.

It’s difficult to say much bad about milk, although I still don’t understand how it’s OK to walk around with a white mustache and say, “Got Milk?” but socially unacceptable to walk around with a Kool-Aid mustache. Last time I did that, I was told I was a slob. Sounds like drink discrimination to me.

The list of drinks and the lifestyles that accompany them go on and on. I wish I had time to devote to the subclass of root beer or the battle between Sunkist and Fanta, but the voices in my head are reminding me it’s time to take another swig of that heavenly Dr. Pepper goodness.

Seth Hawkins is a junior majoring in public relations.

He’s looking for a St. Bernard with a small barrel of Dr. Pepper around its neck to rescue him when winter hits in Logan. Comments and questions can be sent to him at seth.h@ aggiemail.usu.edu

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Wine: Stinky cheese meets French Cabernet

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“You don’t have to spend $100 on a bottle of wine to get a good wine,” he said. “On the contrary, as long as you are enjoying that wine, it is all that matters.”

The price of wine can be affected by how many bottles were produced or cased from a vintage year, he said. Price is also affected, he said, by determining if that vintage year is rated exceptionally well. A vintage date is when the grapes were harvested. Bollers said he encourages anyone who is interested in wine to understand how it’s grown and made so they can more fully understand its purpose.

“Wine is meant to be drank with food,” Bollers said. “Very rarely is it meant to be had by itself; it’s very much not the purpose of wine.”

Picking the right foods to eat with a good wine is really personal preference, Bollers said. One of his favorite pairings is a spicy cheese, such as colby jack, with Gewürztraminer, which is a white wine. Bollers said there are two different types of pairings: complimentary and contrast. An example, he said, of a complimentary pairing would be drinking an acidic red wine with a heavy pasta. This helps to compliment the fullness of the food that will be eaten, he said.

A contrast pairing would be an acidic white wine paired with a lasagna. Understanding the basics of wine can help make a wine and food pairing extremely tasty, since wine helps enhance the flavor of food by cleaning the drinker’s palette, he said.

“When you are eating a salmon, a salmon is high in oils and fats,” he said.

“So the more fat that is on your palette lessens the ability to taste something.

Constantly cleansing your palette (with wine) makes every other bite of the salmon you are eating taste just as good as the first bite you had with it. You can experience other flavors a bit better.”

Wine can be studied according to regions, such as American, Chilean and French wines, he said. Understanding how the wine was made and where it is from, Bollers said, can be determined just from looking at the color of the wine.

“You can also be able to understand how the wine was fermented, whether in stainless steel or oak barrels,” he said.

“That’s what you can understand by the color.”

An important part of tasting wine is knowing the smell of the wine, or as Bollers said, “the nose of the wine.” If a drinker is a really experienced wine enthusiast, Bollers said they can probably be able to tell someone by the nose of the wine how it was fermented, where it was from, and what kinds of certain needed bacterias were introduced into the wine.

“California burgundy would smell completely different than a French burgundy,” he said. “(And) white wines produce a certain bacteria that gives it a certain taste, chalky.”

Bollers said there are many ways to learn about wine characteristics such as these. Wine can be studied through wine journals, food magazines, tasting wine at different places and attending a wine class, he said.

Darci Eggebrecht, bar manager at Ruby Tuesday, said she taught a wine class a year ago, which was kind of a basic course of which house wines the restaurant offers. Eggebrecht, who began

drinking wine about three years ago, said wine and food pairing is a personal thing that takes practice.

“Some people think it’s better to pair a darker meat with a darker wine, but it’s personal taste,” she said. “Keep on trying to pair drinks and food together. I would almost have (new drinkers) start off with a sweet wine so they wouldn’t have such a bitter aftertaste.”

Eggebrecht said drinking a white wine called Luna Pinot Grigio with salad or chicken gives her a slightly sweet aftertaste. But a red wine called Fisheye Merlot, she said, can usually go with most items she eats. So drinking wine with a meal not only brings the taste of the food out, she said, but can also make the experience more memorable.

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“It’s fun to know what you are drinking because it’s a bug. You catch it. And it’s really interesting.

Evan Bollers, Culinary Artist For beginners, Eggebrecht said to take about three to six months to really acquire a taste for different wines as well as to develop experience with different pairings.

Justin Hamilton, owner of Hamilton’s Steak and Seafood restaurant in Logan, said the restaurant hosts wine-pairing dinners throughout each season of the year. These dinners consist of a 5 to 6course meal paired with different wines, he said. Each dinner night has a theme as well as a host for the evening. The host, he said, helps point out flavors and spices of the food and wine pairings as the crowd eats. “(The host) takes us on a journey for the evening,” Hamilton said.

An upcoming theme night at Hamilton’s is Oct. 23 and presents the theme of “Evening in Napa Valley,” which will explore red and white wines Napa Valley offers that go well with a fall meal.

For information concerning Hamilton’s wine-pairing dinners, go to www.hamiltonssteakhouse.com.

Hamilton said guests are seated next to people they do not know. But since the guests share a common interest in wine, Hamilton said these dinners turn out to be an enjoyable and fulfilling social event. Hamilton’s also hosts a Wine 101 class for beginners.

“It doesn’t matter it you have huge or little wine knowledge,” he said. “Anyone is welcome.”

Bollers said to remember viniculture is pretty much for everybody.

“A bottle of wine is a living thing,” Bollers said. “If you corked it today and drank it or uncorked it a year ago and drank it, the taste would be completely different. It’s a living, changing, growing thing.

“It’s fun to understand what you are drinking because it’s a bug. You catch it.

And it’s really interesting.”

-brittny.jo@aggiemail.usu.edu

Everyone can drink wine according to Evan Bollers, culinary artist. It doesn’t matter how much money a person makes, or how expensive the wine is. As long as the person enjoys the wine, Bollers said, that is all that matters. NOELLE BERLAGE photo

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With only 21 days until the season opener, here is a sneak peak at 2007-08 Aggie men’s basketball This is the first in a seven-part series featuring USU’s three redshirt returners and four new junior college transfers

Bell eager to wring Ag foes

By SAM BRYNER senior writer

Utah State basketball’s biggest player physically may very well be the team’s biggest contributor as far as newcomers go. And, technically, you can’t even call him that.

Sophmore Brayden Bell, a 6-foot-9 240-pound transfer from Ohio State University, was with the team last year but red-shirted due to NCAA transfer rules. This season will be Bell’s first in which he is eligible to suit up and play in real games.

“As far as playing time, it was kind of rough (at Ohio State),” Bell said. “When you have a player like Greg Oden playing in front of you, you’re not going to play too much.”

Ohio State’s loss was turned into the Aggies’ gain when he chose to move back to his home state and don the Aggie Blue and Fighting White.

So why Utah State?

“Year in and year out they just seem to get better and better, just a great coach and just a great family environment, great fans,they got everything,” said Bell. “I was a little bit homesick, I missed my family and friends and playing for a school like this with a coach like (Head Coach Stew) Morrill.”

Bell was a standout player for Brighton High school in Salt Lake City.

There he averaged 21 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks as a senior before deciding to play for Ohio State. In addition to his strength on the defensive end of the court, Bell considers his ability to play offense inside and out his strong point.

“Offensively being able to go inside and out,

defensively, being stronger than the other team that I am playing against,” he said.

This year Bell wants to play every game and try to help make the team better, while improving on his own ability as well.

“Just to go out every night and try and make the team better and try and win every game and just hopefully keep stepping it up as time goes on”, said Bell.

Being with the team last year should help Bell do that.

He was able to learn Morrill’s system.

However, Bell is prepared to do whatever the coaches ask of him.

“I was here year last year and so I kind of have the system,” he said. “I am more fluent with it, but whatever it is that they need me to do whether it be scoring, defense, rebounding. I just feel like I have to do whatever it is to help our team win.”

Along with being able to learn the Aggies system while sitting out last year, Bell was able to experience games in the Spectrum. He says that this was the toughest part of not being able to play last season.

“It was rough. It was definitaly rough watching my team, watching everything happen,” he said. “But rules are rules. You can’t really change them. It was a tough learning experience but I got through it and am finally eligable.”

After sitting out a year and not getting much playing time at Ohio State Bell says he is ready for the season to get underway officially.

“I can’t wait,” Bell said. “We had our first little mock practice monday. Just getting ready and I’m happy to be here.”

-sam.bryner@aggiemail.usu.edu

Falcons to get Vick’s bonus

USU sophomore center brayden bell poses in the tunnel of the Spectrum, Tuesday. Bell is a redshirt-transfer from Ohio State and should see lots of action for the Aggies. TYLER LARSON photo

Redshirts returning Year: Freshman Height: 6-9 Weight: 240 From: Richard-Toll, Senegal Position: Center Experience: Hachioji High School (Tokyo, Japan)

moduo niang

Junior College newcomers Year: Freshman Height: 5-9 Weight: 150 From: Salt Lake City Position: Guard Experience: Judge Memorial High School

Year: Freshman Height: 6-8 Weight: 220 From: Centennial, Colo.

Position: Forward Experience: Heritage High School MATT FORMISANO

Year: Sophomore Height: 6-9 Weight: 240 From: Brighton, Utah Position: Center Experience: Ohio State

Year: Junior Height: 6-3 Weight: 180 From: Caseyville, Ill. Position: Guard/Forward Experience: Paris Junior College BRAYDEN BELL

JAXON MYAER DEUNDRAE SPRAGGINS

Year: Freshman Height: 6-3 Weight: 200 From: Federal Way, Wash.

Position: Guard/Forward Experience: Federal Way High School POOH WILLIAMS

BRAD BROWN

Year: Freshman Height: 6-6 Weight: 240 From: Provo, Utah Position: Forward Experience: Provo High School

Year: Junior Height: 6-9 Weight: 240 From: South Jordan, Utah Position: Forward Experience: Salt Lake Community College TAI WESLEY

GARY WILKINSON

Year: Freshman Height: 6-6 Weight: 195 From: Orono, Minn.

Position: Forward Experience: Orono High School

Year: Junior Height: 5-9 Weight: 150 From: Bloomington, Ind. Position: Guard Experience: Southeastern Illinois Junior College DESMOND STEPHENS

USU holding walk-on tryouts Utah State’s men’s basketball team is looking to add a player to its 2007-08 roster and will be holding walk-on tryouts on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

Anyone interested must be a full-time student and must bring their own equipment to the tryouts.

For more information contact the Utah State Basketball Office at (435)797-3133 or e-mail Lance Beckert, Director of Basketball Operations, at lance.beckert@usu.edu.

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New faces abound for Aggies Year: Freshman Height: 6-4 Weight: 190 From: Payson, Utah Position: Guard Experience: Payson High School

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ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons are entitled to recover nearly $20 million in bonus money paid to disgraced quarterback Michael Vick, an arbitrator ruled Tuesday. The players’ union vowed to appeal.

Stephen B. Burbank, a University of Pennsylvania law professor and special master who led last week’s arbitration hearing, sided with the team after hearing from Falcons president and general manager Rich McKay and attorneys from the NFL Players Association, which represented Vick.

Politician in Mexico loses marathon title MEXICO CITY (AP) — After a humiliating defeat in Mexico’s presidential election last year, Roberto Madrazo appeared to be back on top: He’d won the men’s age-55 category in the Sept. 30 Berlin marathon with a surprising time of 2:41:12.

But Madrazo couldn’t leave his reputation for shady dealings in the dust. Race officials said Monday they disqualified him for apparently taking a short cut — an electronic tracking chip indicates he skipped two checkpoints in the race and would have needed superhuman speed to achieve his win.

Cowboys nab improbable win over Bills ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — NFL quarterbacks who turn over the ball six times usually disappear quickly.

Tony Romo’s isn’t going anywhere.

The unflappable Romo overcame five interceptions and a lost fumble to lead two last-minute drives, and rookie Nick Folk kicked a 53-yard field goal as time expired, giving the Dallas Cowboys an improbable 25-24 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Monday night.

Two of Romo’s picks were returned for touchdowns in the first half, while his bobble and his fifth interception came during the fourth quarter.

Yet Dallas (5-0) won, setting up a megamatchup with the unbeaten New England Patriots on Sunday at Texas Stadium.

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University of Utah’s Nobel Prize winner small consolation for inferior basketball

o by now you have probably heard about the University of Utah’s latest triumph over Utah State. They got a Nobel prize winner before we did. Why doesn’t USU have any former street urchins who became brilliant geneticists? The U really did it to us this time.

The news of Mario Capecchi’s Nobel Prize comes swiftly on the heels of Yet Another Humiliating Football Loss to Utah, and I wouldn’t blame anyone for being a little down in the dumps today. There is nothing like being firmly reminded of where your school stands on the state totem poll. The football loss, that’s to be expected, but this Nobel affair represents a total breakdown in our administration’s counterintelligence department. If I were President Albrecht I would open my next staff meeting with a brisk round of firings.

Why doesn’t USU have any Nobel Prize winners? Why are the Italians so under-represented on our faculty? Why doesn’t USU have a helicopter? These are the questions I would have been screaming at what remained of the upperlevel administration, had I been in Albrecht’s shoes. Now he is probably doing the diplomatic thing, publicly congratulating Mr. Capecchi for his contributions to the field of the research of, um, genes and whatnot. That is proper, given he is a university president. Immature, retaliatory actions will be left up to us, the student body. I recommend: 1. Pointing out Capecchi’s highly visible white nose hairs.

2. Reminding everyone that Capecchi has to share the prize with two other guys.

3. Crude ethnic humor.

The reality is, as badly as the sting of Utah’s Nobel Prize hurts our pride right now, there’s no need to panic. We don’t have to do anything rash to retaliate for the egg on our faces.

The U’s day is coming, and it is coming soon.

Carroll’s Revenge. Jaycee Carroll returns to the Huntsman Center Dec. 5 in Salt Lake, the same building where he bricked a jumper as time expired his sophomore year, leaving Utah State one-point losers.

Utah has the Nobel Prize. Utah State has Carroll. I call it a rub.

Capecchi was awarded the most esteemed prize in the world because of his groundbreaking work in “gene targeting.” Whatever. We are so going to destroy Utah in basketball this year.

Capecchi has “opened the door to learning the impact of individual genes on human development and in diseases that debilitate or kill millions,” according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

So what?

The Aggies are going to do the Merenge at center court of the Huntsman Center this year, after they stomp the Ute’s basketball team into putty.

I know I am probably going to have to have this conversation for the rest of my life: “Yes, I went to college in Utah.

No, I didn’t go to the school with the Nobel Prize winner. I went to the school that destroyed the Nobel Prize winner’s school in basketball every year.” I am comfortable with this.

Utah’s public relations department is working overtime right now, shoving their triumphant Nobel Laureate under everyone’s nose. That’s fine. Come wintertime, the hubbub over Capecchi will have died down. Attention will be focused away from boring, dusty academics and back on USU’s basketball team.

It is Jaycee Carroll’s senior year. I can’t emphasize that enough. This is The Year.

Top recruits like Tai Wesley and Tyler Newbold are back from missions and finally ready to ball. They will join a team which already includes Carroll, Steven DuCharme, and Ohio State transfer Brayden Bell. Capecchi may have brought science’s highest honor to the Utah campus, but Bell brings legitimate size to the center position. I hope Luke Neville is ready to get smacked.

Stew Morrill seriously outdid himself recruiting this year.

We haven’t had real size in the post since Dimitri Jorssen left campus.

This year, in addition to DuCharme, who played the pivot last year, USU will have a trio of 6-foot-9 trees in the persons of Bell, junior college transfer Gary Wilkinson, and freshman Modou Niang. At the point we already have the steady Kris Clark, a senior who led the WAC in assist-to-turnover ratio last year. Morrill also brought in a blindingly fast junior college transfer, Desmond Stephens. Get on your racing shoes, Johnnie Bryant.

Remember last year, Utes? Chaz Spicer, does that name ring a bell? If only Capecchi had won the Nobel Prize with the same élan and style Spicer possessed when he won that game with a pullup three.

New Utah Head Coach Jim Boylan is in for a harsh lesson in the realities of basketball in the Beehive State. Goodness, it is going to be sweet.

I am calling it right now: the Aggies are going to tear the Utes up this year. The game will not even be close. I say Carroll goes for 30 points, minimum. Utah fans will be begging to trade Capecchi for a solid perimeter defender or a rebounding forward.

G. CHRISTOPHER TERRY preemptively dedicates his Pulitzer Prize to Utah State, although they won’t be seeing a dime of the $10,000 in prize money.

Iranian-born player causes outcry in Germany BERLIN (AP) — An Iranianborn German soccer player’s refusal to play in Israel has sparked a public outcry in Germany, with some Jewish leaders calling Tuesday for his exclusion from the German national

team.

Ashkan Dejagah, who moved to Germany as a child, pulled out of Friday’s game in Tel Aviv — a qualification match for the European Under-21 Championship — citing “politi-

cal reasons.”

“I have more Iranian than German blood in my veins. I am doing it out of respect. After all, my parents are Iranian,” the 21-year-old midfielder told the Berlin daily tabloid B.Z.

The German soccer federation has accepted his decision.

“I have accepted the coach’s decision because he explained to me that the player has personal reasons,” President Theo Zwanziger said.

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Football faces bye week Second half of season looking brighter for winless Ags

By SAMMY HISLOP sports editor

With six games left and six games lost, a bye week probably couldn’t have come at a better time for the USU football team.

The Aggies won’t be in action this weekend, giving the team an opportunity to refresh from a time-consuming trip to Hawaii and regroup for the second half of the 2007 schedule.

“When you come back east, it’s always a little bit harder to recover and get your body clock set and back up to speed,” USU Head Coach Brent Guy said.

The Aggies have six games remaining — three at home, three on the road. None of those teams are nationally ranked.

What’s more, the current combined record of the remaining six opponents for USU is 14-18, compared to a 23-12 combined mark from the first six teams the Aggies played. That included two Top-25 teams on the road. “(The players) are frustrated like all of us,” Guy said. “I know our fans are too, but we’ve still got a lot of energy and hope

for this season because of the remainder of the schedule. With the break that we have now and having three of the remaining games at home and three on the road, which is our best percentage in a while, they’re excited to play the rest of the games.”

The next two games for USU will be at Romney Stadium against the University of Nevada Wolf Pack (Oct. 20) and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (Oct. 27).

PASSING GAME EVOLVING USU collected 247 passing yards vs. Hawaii, a season high.

That included a 77-yard touchdown pass from Leon Jackson III to wide receiver Kevin Robinson.

Why did the Aggies decide to put the ball in the air more than in previous outings?

“You’ve got to get the look from the defense in order to throw it down field,” Guy said. “(Hawaii) gave us the looks to get it down the field.”

Guy said another factor was the production from the running game. The Aggies tallied 123 yards on the ground. Running back Derrvin Speight had 71 of

those and Jackson 55.

“We’ll continue to do stuff like that and take shots down the field,” Guy said. “We hit our shots this time, and that’s what makes it look better.”

DIONDRE BOREL AT WIDE RECEIVER Aggie freshman Diondre Borel, listed as a quarterback on the roster, was used as a wideout at Hawaii.

Guy said this is because right now sophomore Jase McCormick and junior Sean Setzer are next in line behind Jackson. “(Borel) can catch the ball very well, and more than anything, he’s a good open-field runner,” Guy said. “We decided that this is an easy position to play, with catching some nice easy throws where he doesn’t have to adjust to a lot of the routes or do a lot of different things, just get him the football and get him some game experience.

“He adds another dimension out there of a guy that can make somebody miss in space, like Kevin (Robinson) can.”

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Marion Jones gives up medals (AP) — Little by little, the remnants of Marion Jones’ once glorious career are being stripped away.

Jones gave back the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics on Monday following her admission that she was a drug cheat, and also agreed to forfeit all results, medals and

prizes dating back to Sept. 1, 2000.

“I’m pleased that it was resolved efficiently,” said Travis Tygart, chief executive officer of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

“And at the end of the day, I hope it’s a good lesson that will have a dramatic deterrent effect on all athletes who may be

tempted to dope.”

The U.S. Olympic Committee now will return the medals to the International Olympic Committee, which will decide what to do with them. Jones won golds in the 100 meters, 200 meters and the 1,600 relay in Sydney, as well as bronzes in the 400 relay and long jump.

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The Blue and the White Sports Debate

Sam Bryner is a senior majoring in business management. Comments can be sent to him sam.bryner@aggiemail.usu.edu

David Baker is a senior majoring in print journalsim.

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1. Are you surprised by Marion Jones?

No. Are you? Really? She’s huge. I think she beat Hacksaw Jim Duggan for the Intercontinental Championship a few years back — I know the Intercontinental Championship isn’t the most prestigious belt, but come on. I’ve always been kind of scared of her. She’s no one I’d want to fight. Because you can’t run from her, and she has deltoids like Mr. Universe. But I guess you wouldn’t be to emasculated if you lost to her in a fight because she looks like she could take a folding chair to the solar plexus.

It’s hard to be shocked about any kind of story these days that involves performance-enhancing drugs or athletes cheating in some way. I am disappointed, but not surprised at the news that Jones used illegal drugs to help her win five medals in the 2000 Olympics. Athletes want to win and will do whatever it takes to accomplish that. Unfortunatley, many times that means breaking the rules. Can you really blame her though? With pressure from the entire country, media, and herself to win she had to do something to try and win.

2. Who will win: Cowboys or Patriots?

Satan. That’s who wins. The evil in the Evil Dead Trilogy. That’s who wins. Backward Nazi politicians, the Backstreet Boys, cancer and rabies and pollution. They all win too. It really doesn’t matter who wins this game, evil will have prevailed at the end of the day. Nothing good can come of this match-up. It’s like choosing between Bush and Kerry for the presidency. Or like choosing the best way to die — we all die, no matter the outcome.

I guess, the Cowboys will win — the lesser, more Texas of two evils.

Five interceptions makes me question how good of a quarterback Tony Romo really is. Especially when it comes against one of the NFL’s worst defenses. He will play better this week, but not even close to the level that it takes to beat the Patriots. New England right now looks a lot like my shiny 1998 Toyota Camry — a welloiled machine that drives in any situation. The Patriots right now are unbeatable and will continue to win this week against Dallas. And think of what the Patriots will be like once Laurence Maroney starts running like he can.

3. Bigger upset: Stanford’s or App. State’s?

I never thought I’d say this, but it’s Stanford.

The mighty Trojans were favored by as much as 40 points at home to the less-than-terrifying Cardinal. All on-field-talent issues aside, Stanford has a dancing tree for a mascot, even though their official mascot is a bird — either way, no match for a Trojan. The only thing I can think of tying Stanford to football is John Elway. But maybe it’s the Elway magic coming back? Or Jim Harbaugh, captain comeback? No. The loss by USC was completely inexplicable.

Is this even an argument? I know that Stanford was a 39-point underdog and that they were playing with a new quarterback. But the fact is that Stanford is a Division-I school and belongs to a BCS conference. No matter how poor of a team they are, they will still recruit some top players. Appalachian State is a D-II team who is supposed to be smaller, slower, and less agile than a Big-Ten school, especially Michigan.

4. Who will be in the World Series?

The Rockies and Red Sox. Besides the alliteration, they are the best teams left. The Rockies have only lost one game in about their last 20 or so, and don’t really seem to be slowing. There’s some kind of magic — or maybe it’s just a blessed batch of Coors Light. The Red Sox are just going to be too much for the Tribe. If Manny and Ortiz swing the bats at all, this should be a quick one for the Sox. P.S. Travis Hafner looks like a happy caveman, just look for it during the series.

Boston Red Sox versus the Arizona Diamondbacks. Don’t be surprised to see King Lebron James jump onto the Cleveland Indian bandwagon. Unfortunately, just like when the King rooted for the Yankees, so too will the Indians. The Red Sox have more depth, playoff experience, and hitting ability than any team left in the playoffs. Look for the ALCS to be over pretty quick. Now the NLCS is a lot tougher.

The Rockies are going into this series on a high after closing the season strong and sweeping the beloved Phillies. Sooner or later they have to come back to earth and I think that will be this series against the D-backs.

5. Do you like parity in college football?

No. It used to be very easy to pick games. It used to be easy to swindle everyone into thinking I knew what I was talking about just because my name and picture was in the paper next to my pick. Now it’s too hard — nearly impossible — to see into the future. So instead of looking awesome, I look more like some cheap Miss Cleo knockoff — but with better dreadlocks and less facial hair. Upsets are getting overplayed anyways. They are losing their appeal, like they’re some annoying Green Day song.

Year in and year out we see the same teams dominate the rankings of college football. I love the fact that we are seeing the big-name programs loose to lesser schools. As a whole, the college game benefits when teams other than USC, LSU, Texas, and Oklahoma dominate the rankings. As we see more and more smaller schools or not as successful schools win the big games, the playing field is becoming more even. As top recruits spread out over more teams the amount of good teams increase as does the number of good competitive games.

6. Rant Sometimes I spend this however many words lamenting the condition of my Denver Broncos or my fantasy football team. Other times I try to spit out some witticisms, usually unsuccessfully. This time will be the neither. Today I want to talk to everyone about a problem plaguing sports today.

The lack of shots of cheerleaders and the abundance of fat-old-man-fan shots on sports-related broadcasts. These girls work too hard — doing crunches, spraying Aqua Net, sculpting, working on pom pom skills, tightening, applying glitter — to not give them ample face time. Am I wrong, guys?

Well I finally did it. I picked up my first fantasy football win. Most fantasy football players accomplished this feat in a week, maybe two. It took me five weeks to accomplish. Hopefully now that my team has won I can gain some respect back from other students, the league that I am in and, most importantly, my professors. If I am lucky my team, which is cleverly named BrynerNiner, will pick up win No. 2 before week 10 of the NFL season. If this is not the case and I keep losing, then I fear that I will continue to be rejected by girls and shunned by friends and colleagues.

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Without the Scream, we’re left to Howl

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hoever said competition was a bad thing was lying.

The Scream, a long-time tradition for students, is canceled this year and according to LDS Institute council and teachers, it’s because they no longer want to compete with USU’s Howl. But the question is, was it really ever a competition?

The Howl, which is considered the state’s largest Halloween party, is popular because of the fact that conservative Utah can, for one night, not be so conservative. Students from universities across the state consistently drive to Logan in costumes they wouldn’t even dream about wearing in front of their mothers. Or anywhere else for that matter.

Victoria Secret angels and men wearing nothing but Saran Wrap can mingle and dance for a few hours, in a place where, even though they aren’t allowed to be drunk, they generally are anyway.

The Scream, on the other hand, is another story.

Bunnies and Ninja Turtles come out for cake walks, bobbing for apples and Dance Dance Revolution competitions. Modest girls may dress as the witches with skirts and capes that cover their ankles.

Modest boys show up as various action heroes, the most risqué they get is bright colored tights – that still cover ankles. The Scream usually has instructors to teach students the “Thriller” dance, has volunteers painting faces and allows everyone to participate in a costume contest. The party also consistently has pumpkin carving and mechanical bull riding.

The crowds are different. The costumes are very different. And now we are left wondering where all the students who enjoyed and filled the Institute party will celebrate Halloween. Campus LDS Priesthood Leader, Gordon Low, said the university will try to make changes in the way they run the Howl. Low said there are negative elements of the university party that will hopefully be improved.

When he said improved though, we need to know if the changes will lessen the attraction the Howl naturally has. With both parties, it seemed all needs for those who wanted to attend a mass Halloween fest were met.

It’s true that without the Scream, no one is going to die, as Low said. If students want to do something other than the Howl, they can invent their own kind of fun. It’s still disappointing though that a tradition can be canceled so suddenly and that avoiding competition can also mean that students who don’t want to dress up for the Howl, no longer have a set place to celebrate with campus friends.

Recognize the right to express beliefs

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or the first time in a long time, USU has felt like … well, a university — a marketplace of ideas. There has been a heated, yet healthy, religious dialogue on campus the past few weeks.

Eli Brayley, a young preacher from Canada, has been traveling across the United States to call people to repentance and share with them the “transforming power” of Christianity. At only 21, he has preached in 30 states and at 64 campuses. His visit to USU raised a lot of eyebrows (and voices); it brought some sorely needed controversy to our campus.

Without any religious affiliation, I had little emotional investment in the spirited back-and-forth between Eli and his predominantly Mormon audience here at USU. Instead, I was thoroughly amused by it. Listening to both sides debate whose faith was more irrational, I couldn’t help but think, “Thank God I’m an atheist.”

Once the crowds died down, I often found the opportunity to speak with Eli one on one. I was impressed by his knowledge of the Bible and surprised by his personal warmth. For so vocal a preacher, he is actually a rather soft-spoken person.

During the course of his ministry here at USU, we developed an unlikely friendship. We recently spent a few hours discussing religion and politics over dinner at the Bluebird.

Neither of us walked away having persuaded the other, but I left with an increased understanding of and respect for Eli. As such, I feel obligated to dispel some misconceptions surrounding his motives and message.

Too many students unfairly dismissed Eli as a hateful provocateur. I am convinced, though, that Eli has a genuine love for people. He has dedicated years of his life to preaching across both Canada and the U.S. without pay. And I have seen him spend hours with individual students, sharing with them a message he believes will spare them an eternity in hell. At the very least, he had the courage to stand up for what he believes, and that alone should command our respect.

The biggest criticism leveled against Eli is that his approach was too abrasive. Many students complain that Eli exhibited arrogance in pacing about the Taggart Student Center patio,

- See SPEECH, page 12

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ForumLetters Trailhead site appreciated To the editor: As a fellow mountain biker, I commend and appreciate Jacob Roecker’s efforts in creating Trailbrain. This is a fantastic resource with loads of great local information. However, having just recently moved here from Michigan, I would also like to recommend that fellow gear heads like myself, check out Mountain Bike Review’s website, www.mtbr. com. This all inclusive mountain biking Web site is also a Wikipedia-like database in which users can instantly find, review, and update trails as well as link photos and directions.

While this database lacks the local precision of Trailbrain, it is already a national database with trail links across the whole country including my beloved home state of Michigan as

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well as my new home, Utah.

Just like Roecker’s though, this Web site is user dependent and therefore must rely on the responsibility of individuals like myself to keep it updated. In the end, cheers to you Jacob and cheers to those of you that take the time to update to those vital sites that out-oftowners like myself rely on.

Ryan Deery

Biodegradable materials needed To the editor, First I would like to thank the people responsible for all the recycling containers on campus and the recycling center near the campus police station. Good work. Now I want to suggest that we start using biodegradable items in the food court of the TSC. Lets face it, styrofoam containers are incredibly wasteful, filling precious space in landfills and

taking a long time (if ever) to degrade.

There are new alternatives (e.g. Cereplast) available that are similar in price to the classic plastic forks and styrofoam containers. These new materials are made from plant starches and oils, not petroleum. This is great for two reasons: 1) the products are biodegradable; 2) they reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Additionally, these products are comparably priced and can be turned into compost after they are used. Perhaps the agriculture department could use this in their fields.

So I want to encourage those in charge of the food court on campus to look into using biodegradable containers and utensils. In the meantime, students and faculty can help by mentioning to the employees that you would like to see these alternatives. In the meantime please continue to recycle and have a great day.

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The value of free enterprise

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ur nation has been blessed by an unprecedented amount of prosperity.

We enjoy a standard of living that is is unparalleled in history. In order to maintain our prosperity, it is important we understand the principles upon which it depends.

America has been prosperous because of her free market economy. Unfortunately, these very principles that have brought about our prosperity have been slandered and ridiculed in our society. We are beginning to see our prosperity and the principles that have brought it about about as immoral, cruel and selfish. It seems it is common in our society to regard successful individuals with a great deal of distrust and contempt. The very word capitalism has been sent to a position of disgrace and shame.

The contempt and fear of success stem from an incorrect perspective of wealth. There are those who feel there is only a limited pool of wealth that must be distributed equally. Under this premise, it would be immoral for individuals or nations to strive for prosperity, as it would come at the expense of others.

This notion is false. Wealth is created by work.

It is created in a free enterprise system in which people can own property, choose a vocation, take risks, invest their capital and profit from their labor. Those who are more successful are then able to use their wealth to create new jobs.

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They can expand their businesses, invest or create other opportunities.

Therefore, society is benefited by their success. It is important that the successful are allowed to enjoy the fruits of their labor; otherwise there will be no incentive for them to create more wealth. In a system based on free enterprise, work, initiative, imagination and efficiency are rewarded. This inspires the successful to work harder, be more creative and find ways to use resources wisely.

It is unfortunate there are those who abuse the freedom given them in a free market economy. Not all are honest. Many are motivated merely by profits and engage in activities that harm society in order to make money. However, the abuse of freedom by some does not give an excuse to restrict the freedom of all.

There are those who feel capitalism is cold and cruel. If it is abused, it can be. On the other hand, it allows people to reach out and help others of their own free will. Those whose own needs are met are much more capable of helping others. The perceived ills of a free enterprise system can be alleviated when individuals learn it is in their best interest to help others.

The most successful people are those who help

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Sometimes a car gets towed for being parked in the wrong place. But in this neck of the woods, booting seems to be the most popular enforcement method.

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It is the role of the government to protect each individual in their right to work and enjoy the fruits of their labor. It is not the government’s role to guarantee every man a livelihood.

In a free market economy, the government is to be a referee, not a competitor.

It is not an accident that the free enterprise system has out-produced both socialism and communism. The nations whose governments take the least amount of their citizen’s wealth, allowing them more freedom to decide how that wealth is to be used, are also the most prosperous.

Thomas Jefferson, in his first inaugural address, described the value of our free market economy when he stated, “Still one thing more, fellow citizens – a wise and frugal govern-

ment, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

Colby Lyons is a senior majoring in law and constitutional studies.

Questions and comments can be sent to him at c.lyons@ aggiemail.usu. edu.

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waving his worn Bible and pointing a judgmental finger at us “sinners.”

While I’d agree that his “repent or burn” refrain was less than endearing, it is also worth mentioning that Eli’s style was no more confrontational than was Jesus’. Not only did Jesus routinely lord the threat of hell over his detractors; he also called them “fools” (Matthew 23:17) and “evil vipers” (Matthew 12:34).

Eli’s approach stands in stark contrast to the familiar door-to-door approach of smiley LDS missionaries. Openair preaching, however, was once common in missions. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Gordon B. Hinckley, for example, spent his mission proselytizing from street corners in London. A couple of my friends who went on European missions told me they still occasionally preached this way.

Mormon students took particular offense at Eli’s contention that they were not true Christians. But again, Mormons would be wise to familiarize themselves with their own history. Since its inception, the LDS Church has made similar accusations.

Joseph Smith called other Christian churches “abominations,” and John Taylor, the third president of the church, said “the Devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work” than Christianity??does he have sources for these??. How are these statements markedly different than Eli’s anti-Mormon sentiments? Today’s Mormonism has toned down the rhetoric, but implicit in its claim to be the one true church is a repudiation of all other religions.

Mormons demand their missionaries be received with an open mind (and they should), but the favor is rarely returned for others. The USU student body flung scoffs, insults and, in one instance, a rock at Eli. I’m not asking that you respect his beliefs, only that you recognize his right to express them. I myself don’t agree with what Eli preached. Frankly, I think his religious beliefs insult his intelligence. His teaching on grace reduces salvation to a game of hide-and-seek — “I need find Jesus? He’s hiding?!” And his holy book reads like a medieval fairytale, complete with dragons, witches and unicorns (really!). The way I figure, why be born again when you can just grow up?

Despite my disapproval of his message, I nonetheless am grateful Eli visited USU. He left for Canada earlier this week, but I hope our university continues to court controversy. As a public institution for higher learning, USU has that responsibility.

To borrow the words of Frederick Douglass, the famed black activist: “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.”

Jon Adams is a junior majoring in political science. Comments and questions can be sent to him at jonadams@cc.usu.edu.

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Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

- Latino Student Union Heritage Week, all day, TSC. - College of Natural Resources Week.

- TSC Patio goes wild, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

- Natural Resources Lecture: “11th Hour” by scientist Joseph Tainter, 4 to 5 p.m., BNR 102.

- Ecology Seminar Series: speaker Dr. Gene Likens from the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbook, N.Y. 6 to 7 p.m., ECC auditorium.

- Logger’s Breakfast fundraiser, 8 to 10 a.m., TSC Patio. $3 a plate.

- College of Natural Resources Week.

- Latino Student Union Heritage Week, all day, TSC. - USU Retention Symposium, all day, TSC Ballroom.

- Ecology Center Seminar Series, 3 to 4 p.m., BNR. - Religious Studies Club introduction meeting, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Old Main.

- Cache Valley Center for the Arts – Repertory Dance Theatre, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Ellen Eccles Theatre. (Also held the same time and place on Friday.)

- Salsa Club, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., HPER.

- Latino Student Union Heritage Week, all day, TSC. - College of Natural Resources Week.

- Preview Day, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

- Major Fair, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., TSC Sunburst Lounge.

- USU Parent and Family Weekend, all day, TSC. - Golden Ticket campus clean up, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., BNR. - Soccer @ Idaho, 3p.m.

- USU Big Band Swing Club, 7 to 9:30 p.m., HPER. - Reduce, Reuse and Rock Concert, 7 to 10 p.m., TSC auditorium.

- Dana Slabaugh, soprano and Lynn Jemison-Keisker on piano, 7:30 p.m., Performance Hall.

Oct. 10

Oct. 11

Oct. 12

Flying McCoys • G&G Mccoy Brain Waves • B. Streeter

Trick or treat Trick or Treating at Cache Valley Mall, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2 to 6 p.m. Glow-in-the-dark reminder bands to the first 500 people. Cup cake walk, crafts and lots of candy.

USU wrestling

Wrestling has its first meeting Wednesday, Oct. 10, HPER 203 at 6:30

Thai Cookout

Thai Cookout 2007 at TSC, October 16, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Scholarship aid

2007 Garth & Marie Jones Scholarship ($1700) and Research Assistantship ($1500). Grad/ undergrad students majoring in: communications; English; history; languages, philosophy, and speech communication; liberal arts and sciences; political science; sociology, social work, and anthropology; or economics. Expected graduation must not be before May. Contact Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, Old Main 303 or 435.797.3630 for info.

Homeschooling

Homeschool Programs, Thursday, Oct. 11, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Stokes

Nature Center invites families with Homeschool students grades K-6 to sign-up for monthly sciencebased, hands-on, and fun. The cost for the year is $36 (9 months).

To register, call John Gallagher at SNC 755-3239 or visit www. logannature.org. Pre-registration is required.

Plant a pink tulip The Women’s Center at USU is sponsoring our annual Plant a Pink Tulip in tribute to those whose lives have been touched by breast cancer, Oct. 13 at 10 a.m.12 p.m. at the Logan Regional Hospital Cancer Center located at 500 E. 1400 North in Logan.

Please come and join us in this annual Women’s Center tradition.

Please wear appropriate clothing and bring spades to help plant the tulips.

More to remember ...

• “Cut The Crazy Out of Christmas” Speaker: Norma Olsen. Thursday, Oct. 11, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Cache County Administration Building Multipurpose Room. 179 North Main. $2 per person. For reservations and more information phone 752-6263.

• 5K, Burrito, and Band Benefit to

Pearls Before Swine • Steve Pastis

raise money for micro-loan program in South America. Friday, Oct 12, 5K starts at 6 p.m. in the parking lot west of the football stadium. Burrito and band from 8-11 p.m. at Cafe Sabor. Cost is $5 to enter 5K and $6.99 for a burrito, drink and live performance

by Pleasant Tree; or $10 for both.

Contact Brad Larkin for more information: (801) 389-8373 • Society of Environmental Engineering Students fundraiser 5K run, Saturday Oct. 13, 10 a.m.

The race will begin at the mouth of Green Canyon and follow the Bonneville Trail. Pre-register in the TSC by the bookstore, Oct. 10-12 between 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Only $5. Great prizes • Want to volunteer and have fun doing it? Come help Common Ground Outdoor Adventures provide outdoor recreation for people with disabilities. Volunteer help needed on camping trips, cycling activities, skiing, office tasks and more. Visit www.cgadventures.org to sign up to be a volunteer or call 435-713-0288 or stop by the office at 335 N. 100 East in Logan.

• Peter Breinholt in Concert @ USU Performance Hall, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8, available at www.peterbreinholt.com or “The Booktable Bookstore”